Turbochef Speed Ovens

Posted by
Sean Coffey
on August 18, 2014

Speed Oven

What is a speed Oven ?

Speed ovens are exactly what the name implies, an oven that cooks
products in a very short period of time. These ovens can cook product
up to 10 times faster than a convection oven. They may look like a large capital expense but save money in the long and short term.
Eattucker Techs now are warranty and service agents for the market
leader of Speed Ovens TurboChef.

How does it save you money ?

Take the TurboChef Sota speed oven , it has a very compact oven
saving you space, it has a built in catalytic converter plus another on the
oven vent which means it does not require a exhaust hood. Beacuse it
requires a short cooking cycle and is more efficent it only uses a
proportion the electricity that a convection oven will use. As the
product is cooked so quicky it also saves on labour costs.

How do they work ?

Turochef Speed ovens use 3 types of heating at the one time.
Radiant, impingement and microwave heat. You will be very familiar
with micro wave heating which cooks products by exciting water
molecules, this starts cooking the product straight away from the
inside out. Radiant heat or infra red heat is just the correct term
for standard elements that glow red. Impingement is the secret
sauce.

Impingment

In the 80s TurboChef bought a company in the USA that specialised
in industrial ovens used in manufacturing plants, these ovens could be
tens of metres long. They have prefected a process known as
impingement. Blowing hot air onto a product does transfer heat quicker
than static heat, hence convection ovens are more efficient than
static ovens. Impingement is blowing a concentrated jet of hot air which breaks down the
products thermal barrier and transfers the heat several times faster
again. This is achieved by blowers in the turbochef oven blowing hot
air through a plate with with a series of holes which creates these
hot air jets.

All working as one

Turbochef combine all three types of heating together. The Turbochef Encore
Speed Oven uses 2 powerful magetrons microwaving from each side,
radiant heat from the bottom and impingement from the top . All 3 types
can be controlled to turn on and off more than 400 times a second to
give the perfect result.The inside is cooked to perfection while the
outside will be golden brown if that is the desired result.

Cook times

The Turbochef encore can cook a muffin in 35 Seconds an eight inch
Cheese pizaa in 60 seconds or a sub sandwich in 35 second.

Catalytic Convertor

Turbochef have 2 catalytic convertors, the first one is inside the
oven chamber and filters all the oils and grease but it means that
after you have cooked a pizza the next product say a muffin will not
taste of pizza. The second catalytic convertor filters the exhaust of
all smells to the outside air.

Programming

All Turbochefs can have its menu uploaded from a USB thumb drive,
also they can be networked via an ethernet cable and coming soon they
will all have a wi-fi chip.